[PDF] Bedes Ecclesiastical History Of The English People eBook

Author : Rowan Williams
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 19,83 MB
Release : 2012-06-21
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1441177124

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Ecclesiastical History of the English People by Bede is a key work for historians, church historians and intelligent lay readers. Here is the perfect introduction. Bede's best known work, An Ecclesiastical History of the English People, was written in Latin and is not immediately easy to understand and follow. Yet it is a key text for any student of English history. Rowan Williams shows in his introduction how Bede works to create a sense of national destiny for the new English kingdoms of the seventh century, a sense that has helped to shape English self-awareness through the centuries, by using the imagery both of imperial Rome and of biblical Israel. But Bede also wrestles with the difficult question of how the Church relates to and serves the political order. The attraction and fascination of his work is partly in seeing the tension between the strategic use of wealth and political power for religious ends and the example of self-effacing service and simplicity of life offered by some of Bede's greatest Christian heroes. The issues around these questions are not academic or antiquarian. Understanding Bede is a key to understanding British society in the present as well as the past.

Author : The Venerable Saint Bede
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 29,2 MB
Release : 2022-09-16
Category : History
ISBN :

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DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England" by The Venerable Saint Bede. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

Author : Saint Bede (the Venerable)
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 45,77 MB
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN : 9780192838667

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Bede's most famous work, this edition includes includes a translation of "The Greater Chronicle", in which Bede examines the Roman Empire and contemporary Europe. His "Letter to Egbert" gives his final reflections on the English Church just before his death.

Author : Richard Marsden
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 616 pages
File Size : 11,10 MB
Release : 2015-04-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1316240320

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This reader remains the only major new reader of Old English prose and verse in the past forty years. The second edition is extensively revised throughout, with the addition of a new 'Beginning Old English' section for newcomers to the Old English language, along with a new extract from Beowulf. The fifty-seven individual texts include established favourites such as The Battle of Maldon and Wulfstan's Sermon of the Wolf, as well as others not otherwise readily available, such as an extract from Apollonius of Tyre. Modern English glosses for every prose-passage and poem are provided on the same page as the text, along with extensive notes. A succinct reference grammar is appended, along with guides to pronunciation and to grammatical terminology. A comprehensive glossary lists and analyses all the Old English words that occur in the book. Headnotes to each of the six text sections, and to every individual text, establish their literary and historical contexts, and illustrate the rich cultural variety of Anglo-Saxon England. This second edition is an accessible and scholarly introduction to Old English.

Author : , Saint the Venerable Bede
Publisher : anboco
Page : 758 pages
File Size : 16,19 MB
Release : 2016-09-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 373641353X

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The Ecclesiastical History of the English People, written by the Venerable Bede in the 8th century, is a history of the Christian Churches in England, and of England generally; its main focus is on the conflict between the pre-Schism Roman Rite and Celtic Christianity. It was originally composed in Latin, is considered to be one of the most important original references on Anglo-Saxon history and has played a key role in the development of an English national identity. It is believed to have been completed in 731 when Bede was approximately 59 years old.